Canada seeks author of nasty letters from Santa

OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada's post office and police are
trying to track down a "rogue elf" who wrote obscene letters to
children on behalf of Santa Claus, a newspaper reported on
Friday.

The Ottawa Citizen said at least 10 nasty letters had been
delivered to little girls and boys in Ottawa who wrote to Santa
this year care of the North Pole, which has a special H0H 0H0
Canadian postal code. Return letters from Santa are in fact
written by an 11,000-strong army of Canada Post employees and
volunteers.

"We firmly believe there is just one rogue elf out there,"
a Canada Post spokeswoman told the paper.

Canada Post's popular "Write to Santa" program -- which
last year delivered more than a million letters to children in
Canada and around the world -- has been shut down in Ottawa
until the offender is caught.